Inkube privacy policy

Effective at release

Who we are

Inkube is made and published by astro90, a trade name of Ktesio (KVK 42172743), Postbus 21534, 3001 AM Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Ktesio is the controller for the personal data described in this policy. Google is also a controller, separately from us, of the data its services in the game receive, and uses it under its own privacy policy (see the Google entries below). You can reach us at support@astro90.com.

What Inkube uses, and why

Inkube has no accounts and runs no servers of our own. The services below are built into the game; Apple and Google also follow their own privacy policies. Each of these companies gives the data it receives from Inkube the same or equal protection as this policy describes and as Apple's App Store Review Guidelines require.

Ads and tracking

Inkube asks Google for personalized ads, Google's default, and leaves Google's publisher first-party ID on: an identifier that works only within this developer's apps, which Google uses to choose more relevant ads from your activity in them. Inkube also asks only for ads suited to general audiences (rated G). Before Inkube requests any ad, iOS asks whether Inkube may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites (Apple's App Tracking Transparency); Google's consent tool may first show a short screen that explains the question. If you tap Allow, Google's ads SDK sends your device's advertising identifier with Inkube's ad requests, and Google can link it, together with the ads you see in Inkube and how you interact with them, to what it knows about your activity in other companies' apps and websites: to show you ads based on that, and to measure ads, for example whether you installed an app after seeing its ad. Google does this as a separate controller, under its own privacy policy, and says that, depending on your settings, it may also use information from apps like Inkube to personalize the ads you see on Google's own services and in other apps and websites that work with Google. If you tap Ask App Not to Track, or iOS doesn't let apps ask on your device (for example because you've stopped every app from asking in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking), Google doesn't get the advertising identifier: its ads are then chosen from the context, such as the app and your approximate location, and with identifiers that work only within this app or this developer's apps, which also cap how often you see the same ad and help prevent fraud. Once you've answered, Inkube doesn't ask again unless you delete and reinstall it. Ads keep coming whatever you answer, and nothing in the game depends on it.

In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Inkube shows Google's consent message before it requests any ad and before iOS's tracking question, and no ad is requested or shown until you've answered. You can consent or decline. If you decline, Google can still show limited ads, which use no personal data for personalization and no identifier on your device except to detect invalid traffic, and Inkube doesn't ask the tracking question: it asks only once you allow Google to store and access information on your device, for example later in Privacy choices. Your choice is stored on your device, and you can change it at any time in Settings → Privacy & support → Privacy choices, which is there wherever the consent message applies.

Inkube supports Apple's SKAdNetwork for Google's ad network and the other ad networks Google works with. If you install an app after seeing or tapping its ad in Inkube, your device can let that ad network know that the install came from its ad. Apple signs that report, and it contains nothing that identifies you or your device.

When you email us

If you write to support@astro90.com, for example for help with Inkube, your message is routed by Cloudflare: inbound email through Email Routing, and our replies through its Email Service. For transfers to the United States, Cloudflare relies on its certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, with the EU standard contractual clauses as a fallback. The provider that hosts our mailbox stores the email delivered to it, including your message and our replies, mainly in the United States, under the EU standard contractual clauses. We use your message only to answer you, based on our legitimate interest in helping the people who play our games (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). The website privacy statement has the details.

In Inkube, Settings → Privacy & support → Report an ad opens an email to us in your own mail app, with a few questions about the ad and a line with Inkube's version, whether you're on an iPhone or iPad, and its iOS or iPadOS version. You can change or delete any of it before you send it, and nothing is sent unless you send it. We use it like any other message: only to look into the ad and to answer you.

Children

Inkube is rated 4+ on the App Store, because its content suits all ages, but it isn't made for children and isn't in the App Store's Kids category. We don't knowingly collect personal data from children under 13, or from children under 16 in the EU without a parent's consent. If you think a child has shared personal data with us, email us and we'll delete it.

On an iPhone or iPad signed in with a child account, or with the Apple Account of someone under 18 by birth year, Apple doesn't let apps ask to track, so Inkube never asks the tracking question there, and Google doesn't get the device's advertising identifier.

Where data goes

Some of the companies above process data outside the EU, mainly in the United States. They protect it with the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. The provider that hosts our mailbox processes the email it stores mainly in the United States, and those transfers rest on the EU standard contractual clauses.

How long it's kept

We don't keep a copy of your game data ourselves. Your progress stays on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your iCloud, until you reset it in the game's Settings. Deleting the game removes only the copy on your device: the copy in your iCloud stays until you reset your progress or your iCloud data is deleted. A reset doesn't reach your other devices: if Inkube is also on another device with the same Apple Account, that device keeps its copy and puts it back in your iCloud. Data held by the services above is kept for as long as their own policies and settings describe, and we choose the shortest settings that still let us run the game. If you email us, we delete your message within 12 months of our last message.

Your choices and rights

Settings → Reset progress clears your progress on the device and in iCloud. If Inkube is also on other devices with the same Apple Account, they bring your progress back: to clear it everywhere, delete Inkube from those devices first, then reset. You can also turn iCloud off for Inkube in the iOS Settings app.

Whether Inkube may track you is up to you, and you can change your answer at any time in the iOS Settings app: turn Allow Tracking on or off on Inkube's own page (Settings → Apps → Inkube; on iOS 17, Settings → Inkube), or go to Privacy & Security → Tracking, where you can also stop every app from asking. Once you've answered the question, Settings → Privacy & support → Tracking in Inkube opens Inkube's page for you. Turning tracking off withdraws your consent to ads personalized with your device's advertising identifier: Google's ads SDK stops sending the identifier with Inkube's ad requests, and Inkube replaces the ads it had already loaded.

Under the GDPR you can ask for a copy of your personal data, and ask us to correct or delete it, limit how it's used, or object to its use. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Email us to do any of this, and we'll reply within one month, as the GDPR requires. If you're not happy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or the authority where you live.

Your right to object to personalized ads

Outside the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, ads personalized from your activity in this developer's apps with Google's publisher first-party ID, which Google uses when it doesn't have your device's advertising identifier, rest on our legitimate interest (see Google AdMob above): your tracking answer doesn't cover them. You can object to that at any time, and you don't have to give a reason. Google says you can turn this personalization off from the ads themselves: tap the small icon in a corner of an ad, then Ad options. Inkube has no setting of its own for it, and we don't receive that identifier, so if you can't find the option in an ad, email us and we'll help you.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll publish the new version here with a new date, and tell you in the game when the change matters.

Contact

astro90 (Ktesio), Postbus 21534, 3001 AM Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Email: support@astro90.com.

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